" And, he asked rhetorically, "is the youth and pleasure offered by the devil very far from the eternal youth and virility that we crave from modernmedicine and health science?
As Greg points out in his piece, other than someone who is healthy at the time they are run over by a truck or simply prefer to die sooner than is required by modernmedicine, everyone will need health care.
But Private Health is also an adaptation of the rapid advance of modernmedicine, which throws off ever more and better ways to diagnose and treat disease and ultimately extend lives.
The new exhibit will be displayed alongside a number of modern artworks relating to human health and wellbeing in the Wellcome Collection's Medicine Now gallery.
Since many of the most important advances have been in public health, in measures that reach as many people as possible, this subverts the goals of modernmedicine.